--- title: Watch Today's Partial Solar Eclipse on This Live Stream description: A livestream of the solar eclipse over North America will begin at 5 p.m. EST. canonical: https://time.com/3534885/watch-solar-eclipse-livestream/ author: Noah Rayman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-23T19:08:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-14T01:58:25.000Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch Today's Solar Eclipse On This Live Stream og:description: A livestream of the solar eclipse over North America will begin at 5 p.m. EST. og:url: https://time.com/3534885/watch-solar-eclipse-livestream/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67fe7f5a3322e0df/698762a1e20a870bc3a82a94/solar.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Solar Eclipse, Oct. 23, 2014 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Today's Solar Eclipse On This Live Stream twitter:description: A livestream of the solar eclipse over North America will begin at 5 p.m. EST. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67fe7f5a3322e0df/698762a1e20a870bc3a82a94/solar.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Highlights From This Week's Solar Eclipse  by [Noah Rayman](https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Updated: Dec 14, 2023 1:58 AM UTCPublished: Oct 23, 2014 7:08 PM UTC  Solar Eclipse, Oct. 23, 2014 Solar Eclipse, Oct. 23, 2014Courtesy of SLOOH  by [Noah Rayman](https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Updated: Dec 14, 2023 1:58 AM UTCPublished: Oct 23, 2014 7:08 PM UTC Much of North America saw a partial solar eclipse Thursday afternoon, barring obstructive rainclouds. If you weren’t outside, watch the moon cover part of the sun here at TIME.com. The sun’s dance with the moon was live-streamed from the [Slooh Community Observatory](http://live.slooh.com/stadium/live/the-partial-solar-eclipse-over-north-america-of-oct-2014) beginning at 5 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. PT, hosted by meteorologist Geoff Fox with expert astronomer Bob Berman. 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DigitalGlobe—Getty Images  Dunalley, Australia, Jan. 6, 2013 – fires, false color image (red = healthy vegetation) DigitalGlobe—Getty Images  Australia, April 22, 2013 – Great Barrier Reef DigitalGlobe—Getty Images  Gwadar coast, Pakistan Sept. 29, 2013 – new island created by earthquake in Pakistan DigitalGlobe—Getty Images  Croatia, Feb. 16, 2013 – Galešnjak (Island of Love) DigitalGlobe—Getty Images  Hong Kong, China May 9, 2013 – giant rubber duck DigitalGlobe—Getty Images  Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, March 22, 2013 – Manam Volcano DigitalGlobe—Getty Images  Namib Desert, Namibia, May 13, 2013 – Sossusvlie area DigitalGlobe—Getty Images  Naples, Italy, Feb. 19 2013 – Mount Vesuvius DigitalGlobe—Getty Images  Niger, Feb. 13, 2013 – Arlit Uranium Mine DigitalGlobe—Getty Images  Schooner Cays, Bahamas, May 26, 2013 DigitalGlobe—Getty Images  Sochi, Russia, March 17, 2013 – Site of 2014 winter Olympics DigitalGlobe—Getty Images  Near the city of Sur, Oman, Feb. 13, 2013 – massive “green tide” DigitalGlobe—Getty Images  Valencia, Spain, July 19, 2013 – Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia and Gulliver Park with an enormous fiberglass model of Lemuel Gulliver trapped DigitalGlobe—Getty Images  Versailles, France, Aug. 20, 2013 – Palace of Versailles DigitalGlobe—Getty Images  Xi'an, China, Sept. 24, 2013 – Shiyuan Park DigitalGlobe—Getty Images _Read next:_ [_Watch the Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse in One GIF_](http://time.com/3481595/blood-moon-lunar-eclipse-gif/?xid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3534885/watch-solar-eclipse-livestream/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3534885/watch-solar-eclipse-livestream/"},"headline":"Watch Highlights From This Week's Solar Eclipse","datePublished":"2014-10-23T19:08:50.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-14T01:58:25.000Z","description":"Watch highlights from the solar eclipse over North America","url":"https://time.com/3534885/watch-solar-eclipse-livestream/","keywords":["Space","astronomy","Telescope","sun"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67fe7f5a3322e0df/698762a1e20a870bc3a82a94/solar.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Noah Rayman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67fe7f5a3322e0df/698762a1e20a870bc3a82a94/solar.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Solar Eclipse, Oct. 23, 2014","caption":"Solar Eclipse, Oct. 23, 2014","creditText":"Courtesy of SLOOH","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3534885/watch-solar-eclipse-livestream/","name":"Watch Highlights From This Week's Solar Eclipse"}}]}] ```